Proverbs of Solomon - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 809
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
24-16
PROVERBS.
23-··-2g
Qgninsi grunkmnzzs.
Who have woe? who have misery and brawls?
Who have wounds? who have objectless strife?
With whom are the red gleaming eyes?
Are they not with the seekers of wine,
Who go out to search for the best?
Look not on the wine that is red,
When its eye dances right in the cup ;
For it afterwards stings like a snake,
And its bite like an adder intiames!
33
Loose women your eyes will regard,
And your heart vomit out what disgusts,
34
As though laid in the heart of the sea,
And stretched on the deck of a ship.
35
’Let them strike me! I suffer no pain l
Let them beat me;-—-I never shall care I-·
When I wake, I will seek it again!
wht inllg uf Guitgiug the §¤h.
24
Feel no envy about wicked men, Nor wish for yourself to be them, When their heart is contriving a fraud, Or their lips are discussing to cheat. By Wisdom a house is built up, And is founded by means of Good Sense; And by knowledge its chambers are filled, With comforts and all that is nice. For the Wise can prevail over Strength; And the skilled man can conquer the strong. For with caution you must make your tight, And your victory by plenty of thought. Glyn `msnlzzsnzss nf @nirg-ing 3’¤¤I¤. Wise thoughts are too high for a fool, Let him ope not his mouth in the Court. His ideas can but injure himself, They will call him a bungler of thought; The ideas of a fool are no worth, And a scotier disgusts human kind. Gln @.2zlr of ®¤urngz in Qistrzss. If you fail in a time of distress, By an effort recover your strength; Rescue those who are led out to death, And who go to be slain if you can. What know we about him ? ’ Will not the Heart Searcher perceive, And he know who has guard of your life, Who returns to a man what he- does? ®rt Mis: Chxtiugmzut; Eat honey, my son, because sweet, And nice in the roof of your mouth; So is knowledge of Thought to your soul, For you know that a future exists, And therefore your hopes will not die. fhmilt luill @2fmt (Ehil. Villain! watch not the home of the good; Assail not the place of his rest; The good falls and will rise seven times, But the wicked crash down to a smash. 809 IOIX I2 x6
